Sunday Session - Incredible Kid

I'm joining in Thea's Sunday Session today, because after watching Thea's music choices, I serendipitously found this Paparazzi cover by Greyson Chance. What an amazing kid! Far out! Whether you like the song, the kid or what, you have to say he is ridiculously talented. Love him!

He is just brilliant!

By the way, I am having a Book Giveaway right now that you might like to enter. Go here to take a look! xx

Book Giveaway!!!!!!

The kind people at Harper Collins Publishers have given me not one, but TWO copies of Cecelia Ahern's new book The Time of my Life to giveaway on my blog!!! I'm pretty excited by this, because I haven't had a giveaway for awhile (or really done anything much at all on my blog!), and I LOVE books, of course, if you didn't already know :)

Even luckier still, they gave me a copy of my very ownThe Time of My life book to read and keep for myself, and I couldn't wait to completely devour it!

Now, in case you were wondering, Cecelia Ahern wrote the book, P.S. I Love You, which was then made into a gorgeous movie with Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank.

She has also written some other less famous, but just as fascinating books all with a touch of the magical, and unexpected. Time of My Life is also quite unusual and quirky, and I can SO see it being made into a film, and I can even see Jennifer Garner or Emma Stone in the main role, and maybe Jack Black in the main male role. I think it could be really hilarious, and yet with the underlying message of 'kick your life into gear!'

So, now I'm inviting all Australian bloggers, (sorry to the international people, but it costs about $35 to send one book overseas) to enter my giveaway to win one of these very cool books! All you have to do is:

• Read my review of the book on my review blog, Wise Owl Books, have a bit of a look around at my blog while you're there, and leave a friendly comment :)
• then come back to this blog and become a follower :)
• and leave me a friendly comment! :)

I will draw two random winners on Friday the 14th of October, and, you never know, one of them could be you! Good luck! xx

Sunday Session - Wicked!

Hey it's Sunday Session time, and this week I'm really excited because we went to see Wicked the Musical on Friday night.

It was amazing!! We loved it! Glinda (the good witch) was adorable, and had the funniest lines,

and Elphaba (the wicked witch) had an incredible voice.

There were some brilliant songs including Defying Gravity, Popular, the Wizard and I, and As Long as You're Mine. There was heaps of merchandise too, pens, notebooks, CDs, posters, programmes. I think you HAVE to buy a programme when you see a musical, so we did, but there was also a book which tells the making of the musical, and we had to have that as well! It was designed to look like the Wizard's spell book, the Grimmerie.

So I HAD to share some of the songs from the show with you today. I was surprised when looking on youtube, that Adam Lambert, from American Idol, played the part of Fiyero in the Broadway version of Wicked, between 2005 and 2008, before his Idol fame.

This song was a gorgeous moment in the musical (a bit raunchy for a Sunday!) but I just love Adam Lambert in this.

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(Oh, I can't fgure out how to get the video on my blog, but just click on the youtube link.)

And you have to see Defying Gravity, because it is just such a powerful song, and is a very stirring part of the show. Hit those notes, baby!

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If you didn't get to see the show this time, it will probably come back around in ten years time, so make sure you see it then!!

Pyjama Party Sunday Session

Today I'm playing along with two blog memes; Thea's Sunday Session (of course), and Natasha's 5 Minutes Just for Me Pinning and Singing theme. For Natasha's meme, I'm meant to share pretty pics from Pinterest, but I took some pretty photos on Saturday night that I wanted to share.

I've been having a lot of fun since I started selling Learning Ladder educational books and games through home parties. At Friday night's party I got a lot of hugs and pleas for more chocolate from heaps of little cherubs, and last night we had a girls' night only pyjama party.  If you've been to this blog before, you'll know that I love red and white spots, so  imagine my delight when I stepped into Rachael's house for the party and it looked like this!

The girls were very cute in their jim jams and uggies! Check out the gorgeous spread that Rachael and Helen prepared:

The display on the little table and chairs was another of Rachel and Helen's creations. I added my Hostess Rewards display on the floor (see, that's my read and white cloth!), and that's my guest prize box of goodies in the front.

We played lots of games, and worked out who was good at maths, drama, making words, and finding items in a picture. it was all very fast and fun!

In the background, the party was entertained by the country music channel, and while I'm not a huge country fan, I can always be hooked in by a catchy song.

For Thea's meme, I chose a country song to share with you that I would sing at a karaoke do (if the opportunity came up!) It's very American, but I just love the melody.



And this one is the perfect love song; I love the video, it makes me tear up!



You too can play along with these memes, or just enjoy listening to some fun music over at Thea's and Natasha's.

Sunday Session - Bridges

I tuned into the Grilled Cheesus episode of Glee today, and felt all emotional when they sang Bridge Over Troubled Water. I cried and cried. They treated the topic of religion in this episode very well, I thought.

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While downloading this clip, I remembered the Anthony Callea version of this song as well. I love it, and it is truer to the melody and lyrics.



I always cry when I sing this song, the melody is just so pretty! Pop over to Thea's blog to enjoy some more great songs!xx

New car!

Hey, I'm here again, two days in a row!

I've been so excited about our new car (2006 model, but new to us) that we purchased in the holidays, so I thought I'd share a pic of what it looks like. This isn't exactly it, but pretty close.

(Google images)

I love it! xx

Sunday Session - Soaring vocals and cleverness

It's been so long since I've been here to post, that Blogger is all new! I have thought of the songs I will post on Sunday Session each week, but I just never get to it! Today I'm MAKING myself do it!

So... I can't bring myself to post a Michael Jackson song today (in line with Thea's blog), but the song I've been listening to heaps, is this one (turn it up loud):  



Love the anthemic keyboard and pretty piano, and  LOVE Kelly Rowland's voice.

I'm also inspired to post a Barenaked Ladies song after seeing some clips on Tropical Mum's  blog. I LOVE how fast they say the lyrics, I guess it's white rap, or reggae (?) and I think it is just so clever and funny!




Now here's why I don't blog much anymore. I used to get so into reading everyone else's blogs that time just went, (you know how it is) like two hours just like that! Let alone post on my own blog which would be another hour. I glance through my blogroll to see what everyone is up to, but I hardly ever visit blogs, I hardly ever leave a comment, and I don't make the time to post! I realised I could be making money or doing housework, instead of passively reading blogs (no offence, I still ADORE reading people's blogs), and I realised I had to get off my butt and not indulge myself so much (again, no offence, indulge away).

So, love you all, but time is of the essence, and I've already been here for 2 and a half hours!!! Your blogs continue to inspire me, and the Sunday Session is such a time of entertainment for me I never miss it! I am still alive, and still around!  xx